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...three Republicans and the lone Libertarian candidate finished near the bottom, while the Green Party candidate, Steve Iskovitz, finished 12th out of the 19 candidates...
Against a crowd of seven incumbents and 11 other challengers, most with more endorsements, more popular platforms, and more experience, the young torchbearer for Libertarian Republicans faces a tough fight for his niche. Nine candidates will be elected to the council in elections on Tuesday...
...sole dissenting vote in the Senate came from Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold. "This bill does not strike the right balance between empowering law enforcement and protecting civil liberties," he argued. But while Feingold?s anxieties were echoed among some civil libertarian groups, consensus for the bill is very strong, including among traditionally left-leaning senators like California?s Dianne Feinstein and Patrick Leahy of Vermont...
...fact, Harvard’s policy, in the long-term, will do more to hurt the fight for equal treatment of gays than it will to help. The student populations at elite schools such as Harvard are overwhelmingly civil libertarian-minded and supportive of equal treatment of gays in the military. Rather than encouraging these people to join the military and progress through its ranks, Harvard stifles them. The best way to change the military’s policy is not a boycott that only increases the proportion of military policy-makers who advocate the status quo, but rather...
...enforcement was also aided by a catch-all crime law: Simply by citing "association with wrong-doers involved in a terrorist enterprise," French police are able to arrest and detain any suspect in any crime whose goal, however remotely, can ultimately assist terrorist activity. That law shocks civil libertarians in the U.S. and Britain, but French officials retort that those countries' commitment to strict civil libertarian principles has made them havens where Islamist militants can plot terror with less risk of detection because of the legal restraints on techniques such as spot ID checks and information monitoring...